By Winne van Woerden, Degrowth.de
In caring commons, autonomy and self-reliance are approached collectively. Human health is understood holistically, with a focus on promoting community solidarity in caring endeavors.
By Cle-Anne Gabriel, Medium.com
The ‘post growth’ agenda envisions a future where economies do not grow infinitely. Degrowth is one of many routes to get there — by reducing the use of finite natural resources and addressing the social inequity that is inherent to the quest for endless economic growth.
By Barbara Magalhães Teixeira, Degrowth.de
What is the potential role of degrowth and buen vivir in addressing underdevelopment and conflict in the Global South?
By Green European Journal Staff, Jason Hickel, Green European Journal
The only people that are against these ideas are the capitalist class. The obstacle is not ordinary people. The obstacle is capital. That’s the terrain we need to be fighting on.
By John Feffer, Foreign Policy In Focus
Can those who advocate hitting the brakes on economic growth get their message across before it's too late?
By Adam Marshall, Javier Lloveras, Degrowth.de
What is the role of ‘sense of place’ discourses in anti-fracking struggles and can the degrowth movement learn anything from them?
By Carol Baedi, Jacob Smessaert, Joe Herbert, Nathan Barlow, Degrowth.de
Degrowthers have recently seemed to find a lot of inspiration in Erik Olin Wright’s framework of political strategies for transformations beyond capitalism. In this blog post, we wish to highlight some crucial insufficiencies of Wright’s framework in relation to degrowth transformations...
By Jason Hickel, The New Internationalist
Southern governments are captive to the demands of international capital, which prevents them from meeting their people’s real needs. MMT offers a way out.
By Andy Stirling, Saurabh Arora, Degrowth.de
Will degrowth as a discourse and movement extend coloniality, by aiming to make just one world out of the many that form the earth’s pluriverse?
By Annabelle Dawson, Thea Riofrancos, Green European Journal
Ideas are effective when people see themselves in them and want to fight for them, rather than something that is purely intellectual. We need to think in terms of the questions and ideas that can galvanise the militant and collective action that this moment requires.
By Jack Ainsworth, Degrowth.de
Our economic and political architecture are both inventions, created by humans for certain objectives and the international political system is no exception to this rule.
By Daniel Boston, Transnational Institute
In this spirit, this article aims to provide an overview of some of the key discussions and points of critique directed towards degrowth over the years, especially by people’s movements, and how they have impacted upon scholarship, activism and discourse.